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Alcohol's Neolithic Origins: Brewing Up a Civilization
Der Spiegel ^
| Frank Thadeusz
Posted on 12/30/2009 9:14:41 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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some unrelated PDF files, extracting the text isn't convenient, they deserve separate topics however, may get to it later in the week. :')
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posted on
12/30/2009 9:14:42 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
12/30/2009 9:16:17 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
Alcohol's Neolithic Origins site:freerepublic.com
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posted on
12/30/2009 9:17:37 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: SunkenCiv
"Did our Neolithic ancestors turn to agriculture so that they could be sure of a tipple? "
Far, far, far, far more unlikely, than likely.
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posted on
12/30/2009 9:18:05 PM PST
by
Psycho_Bunny
(ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/30/2009 9:21:39 PM PST
by
Clock King
(There's no way to fix D.C.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/30/2009 9:24:33 PM PST
by
mamelukesabre
(Confucius: Better to light candle than curse darkness)
To: SunkenCiv
I homebrew and have three muscadine vines in the yard(20 gals clearing). Yeah, I’ve been domesticated. Turning into an old Hunky. I just wish I had a spot to grow tomatoes.
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posted on
12/30/2009 9:33:31 PM PST
by
ebshumidors
(vet, rifleman, 'nuff said.)
To: SunkenCiv
We just took a
page from history.
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posted on
12/30/2009 9:39:45 PM PST
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: Psycho_Bunny
"Did our Neolithic ancestors turn to agriculture so that they could be sure of a tipple? " Far, far, far, far more unlikely, than likely.Agreed.
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posted on
12/30/2009 10:13:18 PM PST
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
To: Psycho_Bunny
more bs from anthropologists...humans most likely first observed the effects of alcohol from fruit in much the same way that elephants and baboons did...by eating it late in the season when all the fruit was on the ground.
You can see how distilling alcohol could have come about from someone leaving stored fruit in a container for too long and then gradually refining the process.
I think Maslow would have to disagree with the store fruit for alcohol first and then realize you can eat it later theory.
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posted on
12/30/2009 10:44:02 PM PST
by
willyd
(Reducing Taxes Reduces our Carbon Footprint)
To: willyd
“more bs from anthropologists...humans most likely first observed the effects of alcohol from fruit in much the same way that elephants and baboons did...by eating it late in the season when all the fruit was on the ground.”
4th sentence of the article...
“Here is how the story likely began — a prehistoric human picked up some dropped fruit from the ground and popped it unsuspectingly into his or her mouth.”
So are you agreeing or disagreeing?
To: knews_hound
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posted on
12/31/2009 4:46:54 AM PST
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus)
To: willyd
I think Maslow would have to disagree with the store fruit for alcohol first and then realize you can eat it later theory. Oh, I don't know...alcohol is pretty high up on MY hierarchy of needs. I need beer a LOT more than I need an apple. LOL
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posted on
12/31/2009 5:23:16 AM PST
by
Axeslinger
(Where has my country gone?)
To: SunkenCiv
Yes. Beer is the reason for civilization. I’ve been saying that since my first anthropology course in the early ‘80s.
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posted on
12/31/2009 5:47:45 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(Madame President sounds really good to me...)
To: SunkenCiv
Ug, all you do is sit around the cave drinking beer! Why don't you fix that leak in the cave and we're almost out of mastodon?!
But honey, the Nevali Cori versus Çatalhöyük game is on!
To: Little Ray
Yeah, as if you can *remember* your college years... ;’) ;’) ;’)
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posted on
01/01/2010 7:29:42 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: colorado tanker
Ug later moved his wife and family out of the cave in order to brew beer year round...
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posted on
01/01/2010 7:32:16 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: Psycho_Bunny; Clock King; mamelukesabre; ebshumidors; BIGLOOK; rdl6989; Tainan
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posted on
01/01/2010 8:54:25 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year!)
To: colorado tanker
Ug’s Belief systems:
I believe that animals hold sacres spirits. I beleive that trees and bushes and rocks have sacred spirits too. I believe I need to wash the grain out of those clay pots. I believe I oughta do what my wife Ooma says...BUT right now I believe I’ll have a beer.
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:20:46 PM PST
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: Little Ray; SunkenCiv
Beer may have invented civilization. But civilization invented whiskey.
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:43:48 PM PST
by
mamelukesabre
(Veni, Vidi, Vicki: "I came, I saw, and I'm like, Omigod!")
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